April 2026
The March/April 2026 issue of Oilfield Technology focuses on how the upstream sector is adapting to ageing assets, evolving standards, and increasing pressure to operate more efficiently and sustainably, with a strong thread around decommissioning, lifecycle management, and integrity. It highlights updates to API guidance for reassessing and extending dynamic riser life, explores decommissioning through a waste management lens, and examines the growing intensity of UK decommissioning activity.
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Contents
Rising to the challenge: the third edition of API 2RD
Author, API, USA, explains how the latest edition of API Standard 2RD supports the reassessment and life extension of dynamic risers.
Decommissioning: a waste management problem
Paul Brindley, Subject Matter Expert - Asset Management, Major and Decommissioning Projects at KBR, considers how companies should look at decommissioning through a waste management lens, as it offers a straightforward way to organise what follows once production stops.
A Q&A with Elemental Energies and Oilfield Technology: asset lifecycle management and decommissioning
Ross Provan, Head of Decommissioning Solutions, Elemental Energies, answers questions on asset lifecycle management and decommissioning, and discusses how UK decommissioning is entering its busiest phase.
3 keys to carbon-efficient production
Eirik Enerstvedt, PLM Remedial and Abandonment Services with Odfjell Technology Ltd, highlights how experience, technology, and teamwork are key to enabling carbon-efficient production.
Delivering integrated solutions
OEG highlights how integrated, technology-led solutions can enable safe and efficient offshore energy projects across full project lifecycle.
Mastering thermal extremes
Thomas Merton, Technical Manager at Armacell®, UK, offers solutions to insulating in extreme temperature processes.
Making the leap
Dace Campbell, Cintoo, considers why upstream operators should make the leap into the industrial metaverse.
When wells age
Jim Gordon, Sentinel Subsea Ltd, discusses reducing risk and cost
through passive integrity monitoring.
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